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Article | 31/12/2008 Downloads of pirated Windows 7 beta candidate soar

Downloads of a new build of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system have soared in the past two days, with thousands of systems now pulling pi...

Article | 29/12/2008 Microsoft may release Windows 7 beta at show

Attendees at next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) could get the first public look at Windows 7, the next version of Microsoft's client OS.

Article | 29/12/2008 Windows 7 beta leaks to Internet

Pirated copies of a Windows 7 build pegged by many as the beta Microsoft will release next month have leaked to the Internet, according to searches at...

Article | 24/12/2008 IE's European share falls under 60%, Firefox's growth stalls

Fewer than 60% of European Web users run Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a French-based metrics company reported yesterday, while more than 31% have sw...

Article | 23/12/2008 Microsoft explains how it missed critical IE bug

Microsoft's developers missed a critical bug in Internet Explorer because they weren't properly trained and didn't have the right testing tools, a not...

Article | 22/12/2008 Linux Foundation names new CTO

The Linux Foundation has selected a new CTO, Ted Ts'o, who has been known as the first North American developer of the Linux kernel, the foundation sa...

Article | 22/12/2008 Mozilla re-issues Firefox 2 update, includes missing patch

Mozilla issued a final update to Firefox 2.0, making good on a promise earlier last week when it forgot to include a patch in the Windows version of t...

Article | 19/12/2008 Oops! Mozilla forgets Firefox 2 patch, must re-issue update

A "clerical error" by Mozilla Corp. omitted one of the security patches that was supposed to be included in the Windows version of yesterday's Firefox...

Article | 19/12/2008 Symantec unveils Norton Internet Security 4.0 for Mac

Symantec Thursday announced Norton Internet Security 4.0 for the Mac, desktop antimalware, firewall, antiphishing and online Web-threat protections fo...

Article | 19/12/2008 Google issues first post-beta Chrome update

Only days after Google dropped the beta tag from its Chrome browser, the company issued an update that fixes more than 30 bugs.

Article | 18/12/2008 Mozilla plugs 13 holes in Firefox, retires older 2.0 browser

Mozilla late Tuesday patched 13 bugs in Firefox, nearly half of them labeled "critical," as it closed support for the two-year-old Firefox 2.0 by rele...

Article | 18/12/2008 With Web attacks increasing, Microsoft fixes IE bug

Security experts say that Web surfers should immediately install a new bug-fix for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, released Wednesday morning.

Article | 17/12/2008 Microsoft: IE8 release candidate 'just around the corner'

Microsoft Tuesday said that the release candidate for Internet Explorer 8 is "just around the corner" and urged developers to get ready to test their ...

Article | 17/12/2008 Microsoft preps emergency IE patch for release

Microsoft will issue an emergency patch on Wednesday to quash a critical bug in Internet Explorer (IE) that attackers have been exploiting for more th...

Article | 12/12/2008 Microsoft improves IE8 for disabled users

Microsoft will add features to the next version of Internet Explorer to make it more accessible to disabled users of the Web, the company said Thursda...

Article | 15/12/2008 Researcher: Chrome, Safari password managers need work

Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers could do a better job of protecting passwords, according to a security researcher who released a study of ...

Article | 15/12/2008 Google dumps Firefox from download bundle, swaps in Chrome

Google Friday replaced Mozilla's Firefox with its own Chrome as the default browser in the English version of Google Pack, the search company's applic...

Article | 12/12/2008 Microsoft talks up countermeasures to fend off IE attacks

Microsoft warned users of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) late Wednesday that attackers are actively exploiting a critical bug in the browser, and urged the...

Article | 12/12/2008 Google Chrome ditches beta label

Google dropped the beta label from its three-month-old browser today, saying that Chrome is ready for prime time.

Article | 11/12/2008 Mozilla security chief calls it quits

Window Snyder, the head of security at Mozilla Corp., will resign her position at the end of the year, she said in a <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/...